Chapter 379 "Wu Jue, come here quickly" (asking for monthly votes)
Chang Suining rested for a night in Nanhe County. The next day at dawn, when she got up and got dressed, She Cai knocked on the door and came in, holding a basin of warm water with a clean cotton towel on the edge of the basin.
After Chang Suining washed up, another female soldier brought in breakfast. The breakfast was not from the inn, but bought from outside. Under the instruction of She Cai, they did everything themselves and did not let outsiders in the inn handle it. At this critical moment, when going out, one should be more vigilant.
"Girl, should we all stay in Nanhe County to look for people today, or should we send a few people to go elsewhere?" After breakfast, She Cai asked Chang Suining for instructions.
Chang Suining selected three people to stay in Nanhe County, then looked at She Cai and another female soldier and said to them, "She Cai, Zeng Huan, you two should go back to Hezhou City."
Zeng Huan was a young woman in her early twenties. Like She Cai, she was originally from Hezhou. Her husband had been with the former governor of Hezhou last year and was killed by Xu's rebellious army. After that, she, who had no children, did not agree to her parents' proposal to remarry. She insisted on leaving Hezhou with She Cai, Qing Hua, and Chang Suining.
She is tall and strong, speaks little but is careful, hardworking and motivated. She has always been outstanding and dazzling among the more than a thousand female soldiers that Shepherd's Purse now leads.
At this moment, Zeng Huan was stunned for a moment when she heard Chang Suining ask her to go back to Hezhou with She Cai.
"Sir, Zeng Huan and I don't need to go back!" Shepherd's Purse said, "Finding talent is the top priority!"
"I have an errand for you to do." Chang Suining said, "I will write a letter. You can take it to the city, to Baiji Teahouse, and give it to the owner of the teahouse, and ask him to pass it on to their boss."
Before coming to Hezhou, Meng Lie told A Che that if he needed to find him urgently, he could send someone to pass the message to Baiji Teahouse in Hezhou.
This teahouse is Meng Lie's secret post in Hezhou.
"I'm letting you go home to visit your family just for the sake of convenience." Chang Suining and She Cai said, "We're already at the doorstep, so why not go back and visit them?"
Meeting the girl's smiling eyes, Shepherd's Purse's eyes became moist and he nodded and said "Yeah".
Since leaving with Chang Suining last year, she has not returned to Hezhou City, but she often sends people to bring letters and money back home.
Previously, when Chang Suining had people escort Huo Xin back to Hezhou, several female soldiers from Hezhou went back with them to visit their relatives. They really wanted to return home in glory, but She Cai was thinking about making achievements and careers, so she refused the opportunity.
Another person who was unable to return that time was Zeng Huan.
Shepherd's Purse realized one thing at this moment - no wonder the adults asked her to bring Zeng Huan with her before leaving, it was so that they could go home to visit their relatives.
The adults are busy with all kinds of things every day and have no time to spare, but they are clearly thinking about each of them.
The reason why shepherd's purse's eyes were hot was because of this. As for the excitement of being able to see her husband and son soon, this kind of excitement did not exist at all.
Now she was a famous shepherd's purse commander, who had fought with the general, made meritorious service, and was receiving a proper salary! If anyone was really excited, it should be the chickens and dogs in her family who were excited.
But what Shepherd's Purse didn't expect at this moment was that when the chickens and dogs saw her, they were really excited.
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She Cai and Zeng Huan took the letter written by Chang Suining, left Nanhe County, and headed towards the gate of Hezhou city.
Chang Suining left three people in Nanhe County and took the remaining four with him, leaving Nanhe County and continuing to search in several scattered small villages and towns nearby.
The smaller the place, the easier it is to be disturbed by strangers riding horses. Therefore, Chang Suining did not ride a horse this time, but asked his men to temporarily rent two ordinary green donkey carts to set off.
This time, it really did not attract the attention or comments of passers-by or the public.
Chang Suining lifted the simple blue cloth curtain of the carriage and saw two villages faintly appearing in front of him, one on the left and one on the right. He asked two subordinates in the other car to go to the village on the left to inquire, while he went to the right.
Near noon, many families in the village have started to make fires and cook. If you get closer, you can see smoke rising.
Behind the village, about a hundred steps away, there is a small river. Because it had just rained, the water in the river is a little turbid.
At this time, a figure moving a little slowly walked across the small wooden bridge.
He was wearing straw sandals and a dark grey coarse cloth robe, with a bundle tied around his body and a stick in his hand. A gourd for holding water was tied to the top of the stick with a cloth strip, making him look like an ascetic monk.
He seemed to have walked for a long time and his straw sandals were worn out. Now he came to the river, took off his bag and placed it on a stone beside him, then sat down to rest against the stone and pounded his sore legs.
He pounded his hands intermittently while looking towards the village ahead.
He came all the way here, planning to settle down in one of the nearby villages.
He still had some silver he had obtained from Tianjing, so he would go around asking around in these villages, looking for a headman who was easy to talk to, so that he could buy a piece of land and a mud house to live in.
He had already inquired about it. This place was three hundred miles away from His Highness's camp. If he went further, it would be a place of martial law. People like him would inevitably be strictly investigated. If he went further, it would be inconvenient to inquire about His Highness's news.
This place is under the jurisdiction of Hezhou. Although the Hezhou governor Yun Hui is young, he is a good official who loves the people. It is said that his rule is strict and he has good relations with Jiangdu. No matter how you look at it, this place is the most suitable choice to settle down at the moment.
After he rested here for a while, he went to the village to find the head of the village and try to negotiate something.
But thinking of his difficult experiences along the way, like a rat crossing the street, he propped himself up and moved towards the river, knelt down by the river, lowered his head to look at his face in the river, looked left and right, then grinned and said "Hey", trying to look kind.
After practicing like this for a while, he nodded with satisfaction: "Hmm... Not bad, it looks much more pleasing this way."
He smiled like this when he went to see the village head.
Then I can make up a miserable experience, show off my fortune-telling skills, and give more money to buy a house and land... I think it should work.
Wu Jue was thinking seriously in his mind.
After settling down, he tried to go out as little as possible and not to offend people from the same village. He then built a small fenced yard and planted some vegetables... Oh, and raised a flock of chickens. He would eat the chicken that disliked him or dared to nagged him first.
Come to think of it, I really want to drink chicken soup.
As his craving for food came back, Wu Jue felt quite regretful - if he had known that old man Tianjing would treat them to a meal that day, he should have ordered a can of chicken soup!
Normally, a greedy person like him should go to the city, but the pass he had was fake, and it would be easy for him to be discovered when entering the city. In addition, the more busy the place, the more spies there would be, making it difficult to hide his tracks.
From now on, I'll just stay in this remote place.
Wu Jue, who was hungry, greedy and tired, simply lay down on the grass, put his hands behind his head, and squinted at the sky above his head.
"There's nothing wrong with it..." he muttered to himself.
I am not too far from His Highness, so I can get news about His Highness in time. There is no war happening here for the time being... In today's world, it is good enough to be able to live a stable life.
Wu Jue closed his eyes contentedly. The exhaustion from days of traveling made him fall asleep quickly.
In his dream, he really was making chicken soup, a whole pot of hot chicken soup, which he simmered on low heat for an hour and a half. The tender and fragrant chicken was almost boneless, and a thin layer of golden oil floated on the soup. He sprinkled a handful of white and green chopped green onions on it, and the aroma went straight into his nose.
He was clearly very greedy, but for some reason in his dream, he did not drink it himself. Instead, he took a cotton towel, put it under his hand, picked up the clay pot, and walked towards a figure.
Although he didn't drink the soup, he was very happy, even happier than if he had drunk it.
As he got closer, he saw the figure clearly, but he stopped and the smile on his face became hesitant.
He seemed to have suddenly thought of something and didn't dare to move forward. He stood there holding the chicken soup. Suddenly, he heard countless disgusted cold eyes and curses coming from behind and on both sides. The overwhelming sound made him at a loss.
At this moment, he saw the person in front of him turned around. It was the face of a young girl with a pair of cold eyes, but at this moment those eyes were full of smiles. She waved at him and said to him, "Wu Jue, come quickly!"
Suddenly, a tall and mighty lame bearded man appeared beside her and waved at him, urging him, "Wu Jue, what are you standing there for? Come here!"
Soon, Qiao Yang, who was wearing a long gown and smiling, and Meng Lie, who was always smiling in private—
The former said: "Chicken soup is not as nutritious as fish soup!"
The latter frowned and looked at him: "If you stand there stupidly, the soup will get cold. How can Your Highness drink it?"
“Come quickly!”
Wu Jue's eyes warmed up, he grinned, and responded with a haha: "Coming, coming!"
He walked over quickly, feeling secretly lucky in his heart - he had said it, His Highness and Old Chang and the others, how could they possibly hate him!
He was about to get there, but something suddenly flew over and hit him on the head with a bang. He leaned back and was about to fall.
——The chicken soup I made for His Highness is broken! Wu Jue suddenly opened his eyes and subconsciously fumbled around with his hands, but there was nothing.
There is no chicken soup, no His Highness and Lao Chang.
All he had was the sense of loss after waking up from a dream, and the thing that hit him on the head.
Wu Jue rubbed the side of his face that was hit and hurt, sat up, picked up the object, and saw that it was a bamboo ball.
He looked up and saw a group of seven or eight half-grown children walking towards here, looking for something as they walked.
Seeing that it was a group of children, Wu Jue waved to them and said with a smile: "Come, it's here!"
The children then noticed there was someone here, so they ran over and Wu Jue threw the ball back to them, thinking that they must be children from a nearby village and maybe they would be neighbors in the future, so he reminded them in a kind and friendly tone: "It's going to rain, don't run by the river, go home quickly, your family will come to see you for dinner."
It is such a wonderful thing to have a home to return to and someone waiting for you to eat.
Hearing him say this, the leading kid, who was in his early teens, looked up at the dazzling sky and said, "It's not going to rain at all! It's clear that the sun will come out soon after the rain!"
Wu Jue smiled and shook his head, then raised his hand and pointed to the west: "The rain will come from that direction. I know how to observe the celestial phenomena."
"Can you observe the sky?"
"Where are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?"
Out of curiosity, several children came closer to take a look. After seeing Wu Jue's appearance clearly, they inexplicably showed wariness and disgust in their eyes.
"You're not a liar!" The leading child frowned and asked, "What are you doing in our village?"
"Yesterday, the three old men at the end of the village said that two chickens were missing. He must be the chicken thief!"
"?" Wu Jue waved his hands quickly: "Don't talk nonsense, I just today..."
However, before he could finish his words, a dark-skinned child with hateful eyes grabbed a ball of mud and smashed it on his forehead: "You bad thief!"
Wu Jue was hit and groaned. He raised his hand to shake off the mud helplessly. Just as he was about to stand up while rubbing his eyes, many other children followed suit and threw mud on him.
More children had no ability to distinguish at all and just followed suit. The more they smashed the ground, the more excited they became. Seeing that Wu Jue was just dodging and seemed unable to fight back, two children plucked up their courage and ran to the back while Wu Jue's eyes were covered with mud. One of them picked up Wu Jue's bag and the other picked up the wooden stick he was leaning on.
The child holding the wooden stick smashed the end of the gourd tied to it heavily on the stone, and smashed the gourd filled with water into pieces in a few hits. He also threw the stick into the river, looking very proud.
They jumped for joy and cheered.
"...You bunch of monkeys!" Wu Jue was a little anxious: "Stop making trouble and return the bag to me quickly!"
"You must have stolen these things! I won't give them to you!" The child hugged the bag tightly, turned around and ran towards the village.
Wu Jue tried to stop the man repeatedly but to no avail. He was so angry that he stamped his feet and had no choice but to chase after him.
His body was covered in mud and his face was a mess. The mud was stuck to the short gray hair that had just grown on both sides of his head, making him look both disheveled and funny.
A child pointed at him and laughed: "Look, his head looks like the wild boar my dad caught last year whose hair hasn't even grown out yet!"
"It's obviously an old pig with almost all his hair falling out!"
This made all the children laugh.
"Xiaoshuan, run! Don't let him catch up with you!"
"Xiaoshuan, there's a wild boar chasing you!"
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The child holding the bag stopped halfway when he ran. It turned out that an adult from his family came to look for him. He was a middle-aged man in shorts.
The child hid behind the man and pointed at Wu Jue who was chasing him: "Uncle, that man is a chicken thief!"
Many children with undeveloped brains cannot distinguish between imagination and fact. After hearing imaginary things too many times, they take them as facts and then speak of them with certainty.
"That's not the case. I just came to your precious place today..." Wu Jue came to the man breathlessly and explained, "These kids misunderstood me and snatched my bag while playing around... Please return it to me."
In order to alleviate the impact of his face, he even smiled good-naturedly and bowed to the man.
The man looked at him suspiciously, then reached out to the child for the bag.
When Wu Jue was about to extend his hand to thank him, he saw the man open the bag and look inside. Seeing a lot of silver and copper coins, the man's eyes lit up.
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